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Physical Requirements/Working Conditions
The following selected physical activities are required to perform the essential functions of this position
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Physical Requirement
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Description
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Balancing
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Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling and walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces. This factor is important if the amount of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium.
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Climbing
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Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.
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Crawling
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Moving about on hands and knees or hands and feet.
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Crouching
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Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
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Feeling
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Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.
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Finger Dexterity
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Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.
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Grasping
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Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.
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Hearing
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Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.
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Kneeling
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Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.
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Lifting
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Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.
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Pulling
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Using upper extremities to exert force to draw, haul, or tug objects in a sustained motion.
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Pushing
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Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force to thrust forward, downward, or outward.
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Reaching
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Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
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Seeing
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The ability to perceive the nature of objects by the eye.
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Walking
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Job requirements include, in the performance of duties, walking throughout the work area, on various work surfaces throughout internal or external locations.
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Sitting
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Particularly for sustained periods of time.
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Standing
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Particularly for sustained periods of time.
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Stooping
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Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full motion of the lower extremities and back muscles.
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Talking
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Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word. Those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
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Working Conditions Required:
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- Work involves moderate exposure to unusual elements, such as extreme temperatures, dirt, dust, fumes, smoke, unpleasant odors, and/or loud noises.
- Moderate physical activity. Requires handling of average-weight objects up to 25 pounds or standing and/or walking for more than four (4) hours per day.
- Work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which require following basic safety precautions.
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